![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, the game will release on October 28th, and Platinum is slowly peeling back the curtain on the process of making the title.įor example, this past Monday, they quietly dropped a new development chapter on their YouTube page. Instead, delays plagued the title due to PlatinumGames, the team behind the franchise, wanting to ensure that the third entry was fresh and that it met their quality standards–something that not every game dev out there is willing to do. ![]() Many gamers thought we would get the game on Nintendo Switch soon after that. The title was first announced all the way back in 2017 at The Game Awards. Wipe the slate clean of the timey-wimey bullshit and you could root the next narrative push starting with Cereza and Viola as protagonist rivals.Bayonetta 3 is nearly here, and fans are delighted after waiting eight long years. Best way that I think they could position them as equals would be to have a Cereza that's still on her level despite now mostly having the Cereza personality we know. I don't think you can ever truly ditch Cereza from this series as a playable character considering Viola's mechanics are such a deviation, but I also don't think the Cereza and Viola's B3 dynamic with the former as the "leagues-ahead superior" would track with the next entry. If we're going for a reset with a future sequel, I wonder what the chances are that the next Bayonetta could feature Cereza but perhaps in an early-adult phase, or in the similar age group as Viola basically. That didn't pan out, but this game's time puzzles has you revert into playing a teen-Cereza in training who has no combat abilities but still exhibits Umbra movement and powers. Still yet to finish the game but I remember a prevaling theory back for Bayonetta 3 was that given Bayo's design closely resembled Cereza's, maybe we'd be playing as a younger Bayonetta for this game. Obviously this is all irrespective of any other details to the ending and just speaking in the broad terms of "there's a new protagonist now". If you want a leading character to bring some more nuance in new contexts, I'm not sure Bayonetta is the one that can be that. But I think at this point it's somewhat evident (though I haven't beaten the game yet, I just got spoiled on those plot details lol) that Bayonetta as a character is a vehicle more than anything, and one that's stretched load capacity. Whenever Cereza returns, I'm guessing it can be in any shape or form maybe a younger version of herself, or a new queen of Hell or something. Maybe they really wanted to try doing something super bold. Maybe they felt they could afford it because they're not sure if the franchise has a future ahead. It obviously didn't need to be done so violently of course. Sometimes the things we love gotta come crashing down, at least for a little while. The multiverse concept sort of hammers home the idea that Bayonetta is practically more engaging as a concept than she is a character, and there's probably not a lot more left that they can build with that at least not with only her. It's a gorging of excess that wasn't gonna be sustainable, and part of it is enforced by its protagonist not having a lot of tangible depth to be the driver of a more engaging narrative. DMC never quite had this problem whereas with Bayonetta, we've gone from killing the god of the universe, killing the god of entropy, and now tearing down the multiverse. The way I see it, Bayonetta as a series fuels itself so hard off of serial escalation from the jump that you can't get more indulgent in excess without needing to level the playing field back down at some point, at least in some capacity. i haven't seen an ending this bad in a long time. calling it character assassination is appropriate since she's literally dead by the end of it all and even her name is not hers any more. the writing in the previous games was stellar compared to this mess. i think a multiverse story could have been well written, nonsensical AND respected the character and i'm just not seeing that here. the entire concept of bayonetta as a character, who had been established as a unique game protagonist since bayonetta 1 (remember when she was "one of a kind" and actually felt like that because the previous games did a good job portraying her that way?) is just thrown into trash in bayo3 by first of all undoing her uniqueness by having multiple bayonettas and then in the end robbing her of her name as well by writing that just comes off as contrived and messy. The entire point of the game seemed to be killing bayo off so that viola (who i love btw) could take her name and place in a potential sequel because i guess platinum wants to take this franchise to a different direction. ![]()
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